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PREFACE.

THE Author of these Letters made the tour of Italy with her husband in the years 1770 and 1771: her correspondent, a near and much esteemed relation, had required from her at parting, circumstantial details (by letter) of whatever she should meet with during the period of their separation, curious or interesting; in the view of comparing her communications with the best modern travels of French or English publication.

At the request of that relation they are now published, with little other caution or correction, than the discharging them (in